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But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

Billy Boyd

I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.
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Influence People Together White
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
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Eight Trying Years
I think I have a gift… but I haven’t really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
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Given Havens Thinking
For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they’re trying to tell.
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Character Emotion Stories Trying
I was probably about fourteen I think, and probably like every boy who’s fourteen that writes a song, it was about a girl. It was about a girl who I really liked, but she didn’t like me as much as I liked her. I think most guys go through that.
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Girl Much Really Song Writing
I think Scotland has some great stories.
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Country Stories Thinking
I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I’d like to direct rather than act.
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Acting Script Thinking
The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
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Hair People Weekend
I wasn’t into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around the world.
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Country Evil School
I think once you get it in your head, that you’re not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.
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Bigger Ethos Thinking
A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armies – it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.
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Army Battle Discover End Goodbye Song
To play one of the main characters in it, it’s not the kind of thing you don’t do. Oh, I’d rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings…
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Character Jobs Thinking
The innocent on a quest, the pretender, an inanimate object that holds evil – it’s really strange that these themes are there in so many different countries’ folklore.
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Countries Different Inanimate Incoent Pretender
I’d like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace… and I think that’ll probably do.
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Thinking Winning Writing
Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. Its not glam.
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Leaving Lying Noon
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
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Habit Sleep Whistling

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